Monday, March 2, 2015

In a 1977 interview with Glenn O’Brien for the marijuana lifestyle magazine High Times, O’Brien asked Andy Warhol
if his teachers recognized his early “natural talent.” “Something like
that,” Warhol responded with his characteristic unconventionality,
“unnatural talent.” Warhol’s “unnatural talent” quip alluded not only to
his mass-produced, machine-like paintings of soup cans and silk screen
portraits, but also to his sexual orientation—the “unnatural” life of a
homosexual. Just as Warhol turned that verbal double play, art scholar Michael Maizels tries to touch those two bases of Warhol’s art in “Doing It Yourself: Machines, Masturbation, and Andy Warhol” in the Fall 2014 issue of Art Journal. For Maizels, the way that Warhol made art reflected the way Warhol lived his life as a homosexual male in late 20th century America. When we look at Warhol’s art, Maizels suggests, we
should see not just a critique of commercialized society and its art,
but a critique of that same society’s sexual tolerance. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Andy Warhol’s Masturbation Metaphor."

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